Crayola1:

What do you have? You were born a bastard and will probably die as one. You are a nobody and a sycophant of the highest order. You are crying for Achebe but where is your own prize? Your own medal? Being Fashola's cu.m dumpster is not a title that is worth brandishing around but being the bastard you are up is down and right is purple in your world, so you smile with pride at your title.

Tell us what is your life worth remembering for? Achebe's name trended on Twitter, will the town buffoon even holler you name in your water logged village when the time comes?

You sit on here day in day out being nothing but a bitter dried up troll and you have mouth to talk about people who have accomplished more even in death than you have in your life. How sad is that? Even now the so called loser is all you can think about, if you are not opening up a thread on Achebe you are commenting in one about him. If someone is not important to me I ignore them, you on the other hand stalk them to the ends of the Earth. Yes that's totally normal behavior

Achebe the so called bitter man is dead and gone, you on the other hand are here and alive and salty as hell. Who is the one suffering?

Please do the world a favor and strip down and douse your decrepit body in gasoline and light a match while holding a loaded revolver between your teeth. Save natural selection the time and the effort of eliminating you from this life by taking it upon yourself to speed up the process. You might finally be deserving of a medal afterwards

Crayola1:

What do you have? You were born a bastard and will probably die as one. You are a nobody and a sycophant of the highest order. You are crying for Achebe but where is your own prize? Your own medal? Being Fashola's cu.m dumpster is not a title that is worth brandishing around but being the bastard you are up is down and right is purple in your world, so you smile with pride at your title.

Tell us what is your life worth remembering for? Achebe's name trended on Twitter, will the town buffoon even holler you name in your water logged village when the time comes?

You sit on here day in day out being nothing but a bitter dried up troll and you have mouth to talk about people who have accomplished more even in death than you have in your life. How sad is that? Even now the so called loser is all you can think about, if you are not opening up a thread on Achebe you are commenting in one about him. If someone is not important to me I ignore them, you on the other hand stalk them to the ends of the Earth. Yes that's totally normal behavior

Achebe the so called bitter man is dead and gone, you on the other hand are here and alive and salty as hell. Who is the one suffering?

Please do the world a favor and strip down and douse your decrepit body in gasoline and light a match while holding a loaded revolver between your teeth. Save natural selection the time and the effort of eliminating you from this life by taking it upon yourself to speed up the process. You might finally be deserving of a medal afterwards

Crayola1:

What do you have? You were born a bastard and will probably die as one. You are a nobody and a sycophant of the highest order. You are crying for Achebe but where is your own prize? Your own medal? Being Fashola's cu.m dumpster is not a title that is worth brandishing around but being the bastard you are up is down and right is purple in your world, so you smile with pride at your title.

Tell us what is your life worth remembering for? Achebe's name trended on Twitter, will the town buffoon even holler you name in your water logged village when the time comes?

You sit on here day in day out being nothing but a bitter dried up troll and you have mouth to talk about people who have accomplished more even in death than you have in your life. How sad is that? Even now the so called loser is all you can think about, if you are not opening up a thread on Achebe you are commenting in one about him. If someone is not important to me I ignore them, you on the other hand stalk them to the ends of the Earth. Yes that's totally normal behavior

Achebe the so called bitter man is dead and gone, you on the other hand are here and alive and salty as hell. Who is the one suffering?

Please do the world a favor and strip down and douse your decrepit body in gasoline and light a match while holding a loaded revolver between your teeth. Save natural selection the time and the effort of eliminating you from this life by taking it upon yourself to speed up the process. You might finally be deserving of a medal afterwards

seanet01: I hate Achebe.
The enemy of people.

maasoap: Books are meant to be appraised. After appraisal, commendation or condemnation (criticism) would definitely followed. Not everybody could be carried away by TFA and Sam just voiced his opinion out about the book. Show me just only one book in the entire world that has not been appraised (condemned). Our Ibo brothers should move on after all Sam is not a Yoruba man[b][/b].

Talk Hoha: Speaking solely as a lover of literature, I think the comments about Anthills of the Savannah are wrong. It is not a trivial work. It did not win the Booker in 1987, but it was short-listed, not just long-listed for that most prestigious award for the novel form. A shortlist of six, from probably many hundreds of novels published that year throughout the Commonwealth? Far from marking a decline in Achebe's art, I think it was his most accomplished novel. There are different voices, there is literary sophistication, and Beatrice is in no way a lightweight or ephemeral creation. The charge of marginalised female characters can't be sustained about her. Anthills of the Savannah has layers, is witty and ironic. I recall the descriptions of the affected Englishness of Sam, the presentation of the sage of the northern tribe, the revolutionary mode of Ikem's speech at the University... I read that book years ago but scenes keep coming to mind. It is not a trival thriller.
As for the rest of Omatseye's comments, whether or not Achebe was great or merely good as a writer will continually be decided by his readers. The discussion tends to leave the realm of literary appreciation and become a tribal fray. If the Nobel were mine to award and I had to choose between Achebe and Soyinka, I would give it to Soyinka. That's just my humble literary judgment.